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Jaco Kleynhans, ex-chief of communications at the influential Solidarity trade union, recently moved to the Afrikaner-Christian enclave Orania with his family as its new publicist. He writes that ‘the Afrikaner, population 3-million, urgently needs a ‘new cultural headquarters’ which will help them survive as a nation and help them keep intact their traditional way of life.He urges Afrikaners to ‘move out of the cities” where they are struggling to survive as a nation.

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Afrikaners need a central headquarters where they can make certain that their language, culture, traditions and history are protected. And Orania on the very edge of the Great-Karoo desert, is that place, writes Jaco Kleynhans.

Picture: SA pres Jacob Zuma recently visited Orania ‘on a state visit to the Afrikaner heartland.’ Next to him is its mayhor Carel Boshoff III… Afrikaners should create their new heartland in Orania if they hope to survive as a nation.

Kleynhans views Orania as the ‘ future heartland of the Afrikaner nation ” and explains why in an article in Beeld newspaper:

“Six years ago I got to know the American heartland while travelling on an Amtrak-train from New York to Los Angeles. I’d heart a lot about the heartland but got to know it on this journey. I met a rancher in New Mexico who wanted to know whether Gary Player still played golf; and the Amish-lady with her handmade suitcase, handing out home-baked cookies to her fellow-passengers. Whenever the train stopped, whether it was Doge City in Kansas or in Lamar, Colorado, and you walked into a diner, spoke to the station’s workers and was greeted by friendly residents, you know you are in the American heartland, the place where American cultural traditions are kept alive.

“Their big cities however are just like any other Western city – a mixture of people who chase around hunting for their survival or only live for materialism. It’s in the heartland that I got to know the ‘real’ Americans. People who live the American dream, who belief in God, the power of families and who harbour the wonderful belief in honest, hard work.

“By the same token, the Afrikaner’s future survival also does not lay in the big cities of Africa. Even though our majority of people now live in the cities, urban landscapes do not represent the Afrikaner’s heartland. There’s nothing wrong with living in big cities – however every nation needs its own heartland. A place where you can be yourself first, and a world-citizen second.

“A friend recently mentioned at a meeting that what the Afrikaner sorely lacked right now was our own ‘head-office’ – a place where the Afrikaner’s language, culture, traditions and history in Africa can be safeguarded. A place where Afrikaners can be Afrikaners first, South Africans and Africans next.

“A head-office as a place where we can install our monuments, our libraries and musea; where Afrikaners can get together, and occasionally even escape to...

“During the past seven years I lived in Pretoria “… (*the city which was founded by Boer-Afrikaners during their Great Trek north). “As a stranger newly arrived from the Western Cape, I saw the Afrikaner rapidly losing his cultural grip on their capital city. They replaced their traditional commemoration of the Day of the Vow at the Voortrekker Monument with shopping trips to a Menlyn mall. The number of Afrikaner visitors to the history of our people, such as the Kruger House and countless other Afrikaner-monuments, have dropped dramatically. After all, in the city there are so many other things one can do.

And the Afrikaner has to fight for survival against the ANC’s black-economic-empowerment laws, crime, the collapse of municipal services, and the deliberate anglicisation of our universities such as the University of Pretoria and the University of South Africa. Where can one still find a shopping centre with Afrikaans signposting? When can the Afrikaner still commemorate our own cultural days in the Jakaranda-city?

Picture: the Afrikaners are languishing in the cities under the rule of the African National Congress, with their Western cultural- and Protestant-Christian traditions overwhelmed by a vast Bantu-majority. Without a cultural heartland, the Afrikaners as a nation will die within the next generations if they stay in the cities, warns Kleynhans…

“It’s clear: the Afrikaner as a small, scattered nation will soon melt away and languish in the cities,” he writes. “The Jews only became certain about the survival of their nation once they had set up an independent place of their own. Today Jews live all over the world but they have tied an umbilical cord between their Faith and their mother Israel. “

“Where is the mother where Afrikaner can attach their umbilical cord? The Afrikaner needs a new head office – and what better place than South Africa’s heartland. Nearly smack-dab in the centre of the country, on the edge of the Greater-Karoo desert, lies Orania, where Afrikaners have built up a small foothold of their own over the past 20 years.

Anti-Afrikaner propaganda machine lies about Orania:

“Unfortunately, the anti-Afrikaner propaganda machine quickly branded Orania as a ‘white’ and even as a ‘racist’ enclave where hard-core Afrikaners ‘tried to continue the apartheid system’. People clearly misunderstood Orania when it was first founded.

“Firstly, it’s not an ‘enclave’. There are no high walls around Orania which seperate residents from the outside world. Orania is a place where people are received as visitors with open arms – and especially Afrikaners who want to strengthen their cultural ties as Afrikaners.

“Orania also is a place where the reality of South Africa’s cultural diversity was accepted long before 1994 – and where active cooperation between various races aren’t seen as a stumbling block – but as a necessity.

Kleinhans writes: “A senior ANC-member recently said that he often returns to the East-Cape ‘just to be able to speak Xhosa again, and to practice his cultural traditions.’ President Jacob Zuma, who also recently visited Orania, also is seen to do exactly the same thing when he visits his Zulu-heartland village of Nkandla”. (picture above)

AFRIKANERS JOINED UNREPRESENTED NATIONS AND PEOPLES’ ORGANISATION IN THE HAGUE TO GIVE THEM INTERNATIONAL PLATFORMS AS AN ETHNIC-MINORITY

The Boers/Afrikaners all hope that private sonamed ‘white’ towns like Orania in the North-Cape, and Kleinfontein, 30 km east of Pretoria, will serve as ‘cultural seeds’ for a future homeland which can protect their unique language, religion cultural and ethnic-heritage on the southern African continent. Today, 300 residents live in Kleinfontein and some 800 in Orania. Afrikaner-residents there are concentrated on self-labour: they do all their own work, run their own schools and municipal services and take care of the Afrikaner old and the poor. Permanent homes are mushrooming in both towns. But when asked how long it will take to grow into a homeland, Kleinfontein town board member Jan Groenewald admits “not in my lifetime.” Since the end of apartheid in 1994, many hundreds of thousands of the 3-million often well-educated Afrikaners have fallen on hard times because the ANC government has made laws barring their access to the job market. On the edge of some major SA towns, squatter camps of homeless Afrikaners spread like Okie camps in 1930’s California. In 2001, Solidarity trade union’s Helping Hand charity counted 120 camps and by the end of 2009 this had grown to 430 camps for destitute internal Afrikaner refugees - housing some 800,000 empoverished, homeless and unemployable Boers and Afrikaners countrywide. To represent their unique minority internationally, the Afrikaner has also joined UNPO – as indeed did another small SA ethnic-group, the Venda (Vhavenda) (map above). http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2009/11/future-of-boer-and-orania.html

Xhosa and Pondo heartland:

Xhosa peoples are divided into several subgroups with related but distinct heritages. The main subgroups are the Mpondo, Mpondomise, Bomvana, Xesibe, Thembu, Bhaca and Mfengu[1]. The name "Xhosa" comes from a legendary leader called uXhosa. although another theory is that the word xhosa derives from a word in some Khoi-khoi or San language meaning "fierce" or "angry", theamaXhosa being the fierce people. The Xhosa refer to themselves as the amaXhosa and to their language as isiXhosa.

TheUnited Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peopleshas existed for 3 years. It was adopted onSeptember 13, 2007 by the UN General Assembly following more than twenty years of discussion within the UN system on the topic. Indfgenous people are among the most impoverished, marginalized and victimized people in the world. The idea of the AmaMpondo representing an indigenous people valued for their unique cultural and historical value was officially recognized by the United Nations as a nation with a culture and a tradition which is of great intrinsic cultural value.

The Zulu (Zulu: amaZulu) are the largest South African ethnic group of an estimated 10–11 million people who live mainly in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa., also in smaller numbers in Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Mozambique. Their language, Zulu, is a Bantu language; more specifically, part of the Nguni subgroup. The Zulu Kingdom played a major role in South African history during the 19th and 20th centuries. They remain today the most numerous ethnic group in South Africa. The current South African president, Jacob Zuma, is a traditional Zulu who closely adheres to his tribe’s cultural traditions.

The SA news media jokes about this massacre of four unarmed men, referring to it as ‘the penis-trial”

September 29 2010 DURBAN HIGH COURT - Two former police officers - the Indian-South African brothers Brian and Leon Steven of Phoenix – were sentenced to a combined 205 years in prison for murdering four Afrikaner men and injuring another one during a horrific racist massacre at a pub at Merseyside in Umbilo, KwaZulu on September 10 2008.The court had earlier been told in mitigation of sentence that the two convicted killers ‘were practicing Christians who had not intended to kill the victims and did not deserve to be removed from society’. However the court disagreed.

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Originally, five Asian-South African men were arrested for the massacre in which five unarmed Afrikaner men were gunned down execution-style with police pistols at the restaurant while they were watching a football-game. The two Steven brothers – already suspended for previous unrelated crimes – on Monday were found guilty of murdering the four whites - using their SAPS-issue guns.

Three of the victims -- Nick Janse van Rensburg, 57; Shawn Strydom, 33, (picture right) and Rory Menzies, 40, (a widower and father of four young children), died on the scene; while two others, Shawn Edwards and his father Bruce, 57, were injured. Bruce Edwards later died of his injuries in hospital.

Murdered family man Menzies left four orphaned children:Shortly after the massacre, journalist Kamini Padayachee of the Natal Mercury newspaper Kamini.padayachee@inl.co.za had interviewed relatives of the murdered men, noting that Menzies's four children were left orphaned and that the children, aged from 13 to 21 years, were devastated by his death. "The children lost their mother to illness a short while ago and now they are orphans. They are all very traumatised." The widower ran the Durban branch of a foodwaste disposal company and was a dedicated family man, reported Padayachee. http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2461005,00.html

Gruesome slaughterhouse:

The crime scene was described by the restaurant's security guards as a 'gruesome slaughterhouse' and the patrons of the pub and the adjacent restaurants owners and patrons were left deeply traumatised and needed trauma-treatment after the massacre. Umbilo is a primarily 'white-' dominated suburb in KwaZulu-Natal. It was also said to be ‘very unusual for Asian men to visit this pub’.

Enforce Security company spokeswoman Brendi Baard said security guards who had attended to the scene had described it as a slaughterhouse. "We had to calm people down and ask them to clear the scene. It was very gruesome."

Alan Gale -- employed at the Coimbra Restaurant next door to the pub -- went to look for a friend next door and found himself in the line of fire."When I heard the first gunshot I thought it was a cracker. I looked straight at a man pointing a gun. At the second shot, I hit the floor. Around seven shots were fired. People were screaming and diving on to the floor all around me. I saw a wounded man with blood flowing from his side. He was pleading for help and then passed away in front of me."

When the shooting stopped, patrons reported that ‘a group of Asian men had split up and some drove off in a blue Toyota Tazz without number plates. The rest drove away in a white BMW. The security guard on duty managed to get the number plate and reported it to the police," it was reported at the time. A musician at the Coimbra also related his version of events on condition of anonymity. "The shots were so loud they sounded like they were being fired in the restaurant. I rushed outside and saw three guys leaving the bar. A big guy was holstering a gun. "They got into a white BMW and screamed off. A man ran out of the bar after the car, bleeding from a wound in his groin, and then he collapsed. "Inside the bar one man was dead from a head shot. Two were alive and moaning and one of their friends was throwing chairs around and screaming."

The local Asian community immediately launched a propaganda-campaign, telling the Natal Mercury two days later on Sept 12 2008 that “the White men had called the Indian men 'coolies' and that the white men had confronted the Indians”. However the Natal Mercury also quoted restaurant patrons as saying that “they had seen one of the Indian men follow a White man into the toilet.” A policeman also ws quoted as saying that ‘racist insults had been hurled back and forth from both groups but that the evidence was that one of the Indians had started the entire incident when he'd made insulting remarks about the White man's penis-size”. http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20080912061840115C538645

Charged originally were Police Inspector Brian Steven, 39, of Point police station; Police Inspector Leon Steven, 33, of Mayville police station; local residents Naeem Sadick, 22; Nithanandan Ganess, 37, and Julian Naidoo, 33; the news media wrote at the time. The Steven relatives constantly claimed in interviews with the news media that the men had been’ justified’ in killing the unarmed Afrikaners ‘because of racist taunts’. http://www.capeargus.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=4611524

South African media.. the ‘penis-trial…’

The South African news media have always degraded the true extent of this racist massacre by describing it jokingly as ‘the penis-trial’ .After a mutual punch-up the Asians had left abruptly – as it turned out they had gone home to fetch their SAPS-guns from home. The five whites meanwhile returned to their table to continue watching the football game, believing the row was over. However the Steven brothers returned after fetching their SAPS-weapons, and mowed down five unarmed whites at the restaurant.

Judge Guido Penzhorn of the Durban High Court sentenced ex-cops Brian Steven to 115 years for four counts of murder and one count of attempted murder while his brother Leon Steven was sentenced to 90 years in jail for four counts of murder and one of attempted murder. Three other men were also arrested after the massacre by a special police task-force.

“Acted in self-defence against racist whites”.

Throughout the trial, the family and friends of the accused men had organised demonstrations outside the court-room, claiming that the Asian cops had ‘acted in self-defence against racist whites.’

The Durban High Court also heard on Tuesday by defence counsel Jay Naidoo that ‘both accused (brothers) were practising Christians... there were no direct intentions to take the life of the deceased... there is little to suggest that they should be permanently removed from society.They have served the community as police officers.” In arguing for a lesser sentence, Naidoo submitted that Brian Stevens, diagnosed with a heart-condition, was a 41-year-old man with three children, aged 12, 16 and 17, who were all attending school; his wife is a nurse at Entabeni Hospital. He was a policeman for 21 years, leaving the force as an inspector.” His present job was as a clerk at a logistics company and he was ‘a first-time offender.”Leon was married with two children, aged eight and nine and works at the Ocean Echo as a clerk. Prior to his arrest he was a policeman for 16 years as a sergeant.” He said Leon had been based at Durban Central police station and Brian at Mayville police station.Naidoo said the brothers had very strong family ties, “judging by the number of family members who had filled the courtroom to support the brothers.” He told the court that “evidence suggested that the crime was caused by racial slurs, excessive consumption of alcohol and a fight between Brian and one of the patrons, Thomas Vivian.”

The defence claimed: “There was no direct intention to take the lives of the deceased. Shots were fired “with no intention to shoot at the deceased. Having been dismissed at work is enough punishment. The accused lost their pension fund, their lives will never be the same again.” He said there was little to suggest that the brothers should be permanently removed from society.They served the community for 16 years and 21 years.” http://www.themercury.co.za/?fSectionId=&fArticleId=1.682307&fFeed=region_46

However, the prosecution (successfully) argued otherwise, reported the Natal Mercury. “Prosecutor Gary Williams said the murders were premeditated: ‘The racial slurs were over and the patrons saw that there was a firearm... these patrons went in and tried to close the door from the accused,” said Williams. “Why did the brothers want to go into the pub, why were they armed? Why did they force their way into the pub?”

He told the court that the intention was to enter and fire shots at the patrons. It did not matter who was shot. “When they entered the pub they entered with the intention to kill. This was premeditated. Premeditated does not mean hours or days, it can be at the same time.”

Williams said four lives were lost and four families suffered. He said the brothers could have informed the patrons that they were police officers and possiblyhave even closed the pub.

Instead, the brothers chose to take the law into their own hands and had shown no remorse.He said there was no evidence to suggest that they had drunk a lot of alcohol that could have impaired their judgement. “Any sentence less than life is inappropriate, society demands that these accused be removed from society as long as possible.” Leon and Brian, wearing the same clothing as they did for Monday's court appearance, looked tired. The judge had ruled on Monday that they should remain in custody and they had spent the night in a holding cell. On Tuesday, they were taken away to start serving their life-long sentences. http://www.themercury.co.za/?fSectionId=&fArticleId=1.682307&fFeed=region_46

This is a new crystal-meth drug circulated at South African schools, known as 'strawberry quick '. It looks like a sweet - the well-known strawberry pop-rocks candy that sizzles and 'pops' in your mouth. It also smells like strawberry and it is being handed out to even the smallest children in school yards. They are calling it strawberry meth or strawberry quick.

Kids are ingesting this thinking that it is candy and are being rushed off to the hospital in dire condition. It also comes in other flavours: chocolate, peanut butter, cola, cherry, grape and orange. Please instruct your children not to accept candy from strangers and even not to accept candy that looks like this from a friend (who may have been given it and believed it is candy) and to take any that they may have to a teacher, principal, etc. immediately. source: LouErasmus@hotmail.com

"This is how our money is stolen" claims Emmarentia Olivier, who works in the catering department of the golfing estate Sanlameer on the KZN south coast. Her email is catering@sanlameer.co.za - and she wrote in an email sent to her friends:

"Here we go again: now ABSA bank wants to select the Springbok rugby players. I am an ABSA client myself and have been talking to them and the police with one question: where does ABSA get the money to sponsor soccer, rugby Curry-Cup and now the Springboks? I caught ABSA out in a small transaction. On 3 September, ABSA deducted R19,50 from my bank account which they said was earmarked for "ABSA REWARDS". I contacted them to find out exactly where I ever gave them permission for this. Their reply: I was purportedly approached in May 2010 by a telemarketer and I 'gave permission'. I did NO SUCH THING. Then when I confronted them about this, I received an SMS:

"Dear Mr? You have been deregistered from Absa Rewards program..."

Olivier writes: "Work it out for yourselves: R19,50 paid by 1-million clients -- who never gave permission -- equals R19,500,000m a month. Multiply this by twelve and that's R234,000.000m a year. That's how we ordinary citizens are conned out of our money. This must be fraud - and that's where they get those millions for sponsorships.

"And then ABSA has the nerve to prescribe the race of playes in the Springbok team.. how much longer are we going to allow our sporting events to be undermined like this? How much longer are we going to allow our traditions be trampled underfoot by placing people in posts only based on their skin colour? We must stand up and fight for our rugby pride.Check out your own bank statements and see who else is being defrauded.Is there any police-officer or judicial expert willing to take on this care on our behalf, please?" Ask ABSA at http://www.absa.co.za/absacoza/

Monday 27 September 2010 By Cynthia Dreyer Madibeng Pulse - Hartbeespoort police followed the aroma to a sheep braai and found two men sitting in front of a shack with a lamb on the spit on the fire and beers in hand.

While two men sat in front of their braai in Ten Rooms squatter camp at the weekend relishing newly roasted lamb, police investigated inside their shack only to find another sheep, this time live and “very fat” kept under the bed. One wonders how long the sheep would have had to stay there, hidden from prying eyes and no doubt hungry mouths had it not been for the police!

Even if the sheep was hidden, there’s no way the thieves could have disguised the smell of deliciously roasting meat wafting in the air from neighbours or the police. The sheep had a yellow tag on its ear, and police are hoping that the owner will come forward and claim the animal. Police had to ride around with the sheep in a police vehicle until they could take it to the Hartbeespoort Animal Welfare and from there it was taken to Makalani.

The search operation which took place from about 03:00 on Friday morning by 55 members of staff using 15 vehicles and a helicopter netted 29 suspects. Ten Rooms informal settlement was targeted and then Marius camp. Of those arrested, 19 were illegal immigrants, three were selling liquor at shebeens, four were in possession of possible stolen goods and two were arrested for common robbery.

Mr Romano van der Spuy, vice Chairman of the Hartbeespoort Community Policing Forum, told MadibengPulse that when police arrived at Marius, it was already light and some of the illegals ran away from the helicopter, but were captured by police. Many illegal minors were taken to the police station but released without being charged.

Police were also able to gain entry to a Rietfontein plot with a search warrant where stolen goods are suspected of being stored. They recovered laptops and computers and made arrests.

Maxi Security supervisor assaults his own guardThe Maxi Security supervisor who assaulted his employee at Kosmos Ridge during the early hours of Saturday morning for `apparently not doing his job properly`, has been charged with assault by the employee.

In other assault cases this weekend, a woman at Ten Rooms was badly assaulted and gangraped by three unknown men on Thursday night and at Eagle Waters the former Oberon, four men attacked another man. They are known to their victim and police said they are´going to arrest them`.

Two assaults with intent to do grievous bodily harm were reported at the Schaumberg `informal settlement` in Skeerpoort. The first one happened on Friday when a man was assaulted with an iron object and the second incident happened at midnight and on Saturday a woman was assaulted by her ex boyfriend and a second person. They threw a bottle at the woman.

Also, the security guard at Caravella Portuguesa restaurant in Melodie had his Opel hijacked on Saturday after two men broke the window of his Corsa Lite bakkie and pointed a firearm at him.

And in another incident involving a car, a group of men who had earlier put in petrol at the Pecanwood Total garage on Friday returned later, accusing the petrol attendant of having stolen a cell phone and money from them. They assaulted the petrol attendant and robbed him of R400 before driving off. Police have the registration number of the car.

Food Zone Broederstroom / battery looted from car A worker at the Food Zone in Broederstroom found that the battery had been stolen from his car parked outside the shop when he wanted to go home last night. One suspect has been arrested but the other is thought to have fled to Lethlabile.

A bakkie that was seen in Alexander Township in Johannesburg is suspected of being the one stolen in Broederstroom on Saturday night. It was parked under a canopy but thieves stole a TV and Sony video recorder from the house which they loaded into the bakkie and then drove off.

In Kalkheuvel West, a sliding door was forced open and a laptop, household goods, towels and food worth R10,530 and an off road bike worth R13 900 was stolen from a Strydom Street home in Schoemansville between Thursday and Sunday while the owners were away. At the fitness centre behind O’ Hagans, a window was broken and two DVD’s worth R7 000 and a computer worth R6 000 were stolen when the gym was closed between Thursday and Saturday. Thieves broke the lock to a store room on the Jalalpor Road in Broederstroom but didn’t take anything from there although they took the spare wheel of a trailer on the property. http://www.madibengpulse.co.za/?Task=system&CategoryID=31152&HeadingText=CrimeAlert+270910+sheep#daihatsu

At the Broederstroom resort of Kyk-kidam, four women were sleeping in a chalet during the early hours of Saturday morning when three males came in and threatened them with a crowbar.

Luggage containing clothes was taken as well as cell phones but the suitcases were later found - but not the contents. In a second incident at the same resort, three mountain bikes worth R5,200 were stolen after thieves cut the fence to get in some time on Friday night. A case of theft and malicious damage to property has been opened.

At the Good Shepherd Retreat in Meerhof, an alarm was set off to which the response company reacted, but they were too late to recover the bedding and curtains that were stolen. Thieves had forced a window open at one of the cottages to gain entry.

At the Welgegund Pelindaba Mission, thieves smashed a back window before stealing a car radio worth R3 000 as well as a CD player and a battery worth R600.

At the Alpha Training and Conference Centre in Broederstroom, a sports bar was broken into and a DSTV decoder worth R1 900 and a DVD player worth R2 000 plus towels were taken.

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September 24 2010 – NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, USA. American journalist Carol Forsloff writes in her blog newspaper “Green Heritage News’, that the violence against the Afrikaners continues to mount, as a minority group in South Africa pleads for relief from violence and retribution and seeks self determination for itself. The Afrikaners want the world to know and worry the international groups do not respond.”

The entire article is reproduced below. Ms Forsloff is a liberal US journalist who abhors all forms of violence. She campaigns relentlessly for the rights of the hard-hit people of New Orleans – plunged into misery and destitution by natural disasters and the recent devastating pollution from the imfamous oil-platform explosion’s oil spill. She also is a strong supporter of the Quaker belief in peaceful coexistence and ‘gentle persuasion’.

She condemns the relentless murder attacks by black gangs who target Afrikaners, writing:

“Human rights organizations have yet to denounce the treatment of the Afrikaners in any significant way. Minorities are seen ordinarily as the people of color when there is conflict. In this situation, the problem is different, becoming the mistreatment, cruelty and violence against a group of people who are a minority at the hands of people who seek vengeance, retribution and power. They do this to the helpless and hapless folk who cannot defend themselves against growing hordes of marauders who invade their homes and land, according to those who have long documented, and continue to document the tragedy.”

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Summary: Smallholder Christa du Toit shot dead at Uitzicht; Part-time SAPS canteen worker Jacoba Coetzee of Ermelo was axed to death next to her bible; Two smallholders at the Kameeldrift region near Pretoria – which has the highest farm-attack rates in the country – were arrested after shooting dead an unknown black man who had climbed into their window in the middle of the night;

September 23 2010 - Swazina Park, Uitzicht smallholdings – Pretoria . Afrikaner smallholder Christa Du Toit had just opened the electronic gates to her gardener when she was attacked, throttled and then shot dead with one shot to the head.

Beside her fiancee André du Plessis (54) Mrs Du Toit leaves two children, Amanda, 26 and Leon 31. “It was terrifying. One moment you were talking with her, you come back and she’s dead with a shot in her head,’ said the badly beaten Mrs Coetzee in an interview with Beeld newspaper.

Things were not as usual that morning: both gardeners had failed to show up for work. Shortly after Mr du Plessis had left, housekeeper Mrs Mambo suddenly saw that Mrs du Toit was being throttled by one of the gardeners. She rushed to the adjacent flat of Mrs Coetzee, warning that “Mrs Du Toit was being held hostage.”

The attacker came in, pushed a gun against Mrs Coetzee’s head and forced the two women into the bathroom, demanding money, before taking them to the main house. “When we walked into the hallway we saw Christa on the ground. He forced us to walk four times across her body. I asked him whether Christa was dead, and the man kicked her body and told us to shut up.’ Mrs Mambo then saw her chance, grabbed the gardener’s gun, throwing it into the air. As it fell to pieces on the ground the housekeeper rushed away to seek help from a neighbour. In the meantime Mrs Coetzee was being so brutally beaten by the murderer that she passed out. When she came to, he was gone.

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AIRWING, K9 UNITS SHOWED UP WITHIN MINUTES TO SEARCH THE AREA:

SAPS-members from the Hercules police station, the SAPS airwing and the Pretoria K9 unit showed up within minutes of the alarm and started searching the surrounding area. Mrs Coetzee was taken to the private Wesmed Bougainville Hospital in Hercules where she was treated free of charge, reports Beeld.

Mrs Mickey Coetzee, left photographed by Beeld after her ordeal: “I told Maurine to lock the door, and just as she did so a shot was fired right through the door. “

Warrant Officer Louis de Bruin released a picture of a man ‘who could assist them in their inquiry’, named as Nyasha Mabure (19). De Bruin said that while he ‘appeared to have been demanding money, he did not get any and nothing else was robbed either.’

Buks Viljoen, Beeld ERMELO - Sept 23 2010 - The Afrikaans Bible used by Jacoba ‘Jakkie’ Cornelia Coetzee, 62, that morning during Bible study was on her bedside table – and on the floor below lay a bloodied axe near her mutilated body, writes Buks Viljoen of Beeld newspaper. Only a cellphone appears to be missing…

Mrs Coetzee – who worked part-time with her husband at the Ermelo SAPS canteen - was cruelly hacked to death on Thursday afternoon. Her body lay next to the bed. Shocked family members and friends, including many police officials who were friends of the couple, gathered at the Coetzee family home on Thursday after the news of her murder broke.

Her husband Gert, 66, had arrived home at about 12:30 and discovered his wife's maimed body in the master bedroom. She had at least one hack wound to her face. Mrs Coetzee, a congregant of the Dutch Reformed church in the town, earlier that morning had still attended her weekly Bible study group with her friends. When she left there at 11.30, it was the last time she was seen alive. When her husband came home shortly before lunch, he found her lying in a pool of blood next to the bed in their bedroom. The axe lay near her body.

Gem of a human beingThe Coetzees are well-known in the town and news about her death sent shockwaves through the community. Among other things, they handled ticket sales at the entrance to the Ermelo agricultural show every year. The couple also worked part-time at the bar in the police canteen. Mrs Coetzee was seen at the canteen on Thursday morning taking stock after they had worked on Wednesday night. "She was a gem of a human being. The epitome of benevolence," Karla Prinsloo, spokeswoman for the Ermelo police, said on Thursday. The police's forensic experts were still busy investigating the scene for clues on Thursday night. Her daughter, Susan Losper, told Beeld through her tears how horrific the attack had been, shortly after she arrived at her parents' home on Thursday.She was too emotional to talk about it further.

According to w/o Prinsloo, by Thursday night the police “had found no sign of forced entry to the house”and the only thing that was missing was Mrs Coetzee's cellphone…

The SAPS may be contacted via Lt. Col. Leonie Joubert at telephone 017 811 3665 if anyone has further information about the murder.

Picture: Mrs Elize Olivier burst into tears outside the Pretoria magistrate ‘s court after a black magistrate postponed her husband’s and brother-in-law’s bail-applications to the weekend because police were still looking for an unknown Zimbabwean witness to the shooting death of an attacker on Sept 20 2010. http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Ons-lewe-in-vrees-20100923

Mrs Olivier told Beeld photographer Wayne Coetzee that with the Olivier men in jail, the family ‘feared for their lives’ at the smallholding and that three unknown men had also been there just the previous night.

Working-class Afrikaners under siege at Kameeldrift:

Kameeldrift is a low-income working-class Afrikaner region -- yet it’s also is one of the most dangerous areas in South Africa - and many hundreds of smallholders have been attacked, raped, assaulted and murdered there over the past few years in an ongoing campaign of terror by well-organised, armed black gangs. These warlike living conditions have even gained fame abroad, with a journalist from Norway even travelling to the smallholdings to interview residents:

Gerhard Pretorius reported in Beeld newspaper that Kameeldrift smallholder Mrs Elize Olivier said her family was living in fear after her husband and his brother were arrested and put in a police cell until at least the weekend -- arrested for allegedly shooting dead an unknown black man who was busy breaking into a window of their homestead on Monday-night September 20 2010.

‘We live in fear there. Last night three more men were at our smallholding,’ said Mrs Olivier, tears streaming down her face when she heard that her husband Frederick Chrisjan and his brother Koos Petrus Olivier, would have to remain in the police cells until at least the weekend. Their bail application was postponed on Thursday ‘pending a statement from one witness’ the court ruled. The SAPS claimed in their submission to oppose the bail-application – which by law has to be heard within 48 hours of any arrest - that the smallholders had allegedly ‘dumped’ the dead farm-attacker’s body along the road.

However Fredrick Olivier’s lawyer JD Nel told magistrate Bhekui Ntshingila that he opposed postponement of the bail application: “The statement which the police is still trying to obtain is from an unknown Zimbabwean man. To find that man is going to be very difficult.’

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-Norman Fourie, 16, knifed and beaten into a concussion in racist beating by black pupil at Welkom Sept 21 2010

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2010-09-22 Tom de Wet of Volksblad newspaper writes from Welkom in the Free State that in yet another of the many attacks targetting white pupils of late, a Grade-9 Afrikaner pupil, Norman Fourie, 16, was beaten senseless by a black pupil, who was egged on to continue the vicious beating by a group of black pupils. A knife was also involved: he sustained cut-marks to his neck and back.

When viewing the video frame by frame, it’s clear that the black youth in a white shirt, first shouts and points at young Fourie – the white youth fights back after receiving blows and being wrestled, and then the black youth hit the white youth so hard that Fourie fell to the ground, he’s dazed, tries to get up while being beaten and then falls down and is still - clearly knocked out.

Then the black youth picks up the limp white youth and lugs him around– then he throws Fourie to the ground a second time, where the white youth lies still as he receives several kicks and blows to the body and the head. In the very last frame the Afrikaans youth is lying still on the ground.

The video-recording made by a fellow-pupil on his cellphone was placed on YouTube by Volksblad newspaper. The surrounding black students encourage the beating loudly, vocally and at the end of the video it can even be seen that one parent sits and watches the vicious beating of the white pupil from inside his car without intervening.

The concussed Afrikaner youth then was dragged away by classmates who contacted his mom. He was found at the school, confused and injured and was taken to a doctor by his mom - and there he was diagnosed with a serious concussion, several cuts, bruises and scrapes all over his body.

His mother Mrs Elsie Fourie said although Norman ‘tried to write his examination after the beating, the boy was so concussed that he did not do well”. She also took him to the police station to report the assault. “He cannot remember anything about it”, she said. His father also has been dead for four years but he can no longer remember that either: on Monday after the assault when he woke up he had wept and started looking for his dad, she said. “To be beaten up like that without the personnel intervening, is unacceptable,’ she said.

“One of my son’s mates phoned me Monday and said Norman was stabbed by a knife. I rushed to school and found him there, very injured and confused. His classmates took him from the place where he was beaten senseless. Head of school Hennie Burger is accused by onlookers of having seen the beating but not intervening. It all started when another black youth, 18 years old but still in Grade 8, started to curse my son constantly. When Norman asked him to stop cursing him, the beating took place, ‘ said the mother.

A doctor confirmed that Norman sustained a serious concussion, and that he had cutting- and scratching-marks to his back, neck and elbows. Bystanders told Volksblad that ‘a knife also was involved’. His mother said she is a working single mom and had to leave her injured son with friends to have his condition monitored. “He slept all day”.

Deputy-head Coert Olivier told Volksblad that there ‘had been a back and forth fight which started at the school grounds and continued outside the gates. The matter now is in police hands’. The school management did not say whether the black pupil who had done the cursing, the beating, the kicking and the knifing, was meanwhile suspended pending the investigation, nor whether his parents had been spoken to about it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4EwsODQoM&feature=player_embedded

Louise Jacobs 77 let her shotgun do the talkingPupils and teachers in the predominantly “white Afrikaner” areas of South Africa – in the Vaal triangle, Durban and Jan Kempdorp -- were catching up with their schoolwork after a six-week layoff due to the World Cup 2010 football ...

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